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Diodato "Uto" Ughi (born 21 January 1944 in Busto Arsizio, Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1987–1992. He is considered one of Italy's greatest living violinists and is also active in the promotion of classical music in today's culture. When he was young he started to play the violin, at only «5 or 6 years» he said, and he made his debut at 7 years old, at the Teatro Lirico di Milano. At 12 years he was considered a mature artist. He involves himself in many activities to promote music culture. He is the founder of several music festivals, namely "Omaggio a Venezia", "Omaggio a Roma" (1999–2002) and "Uto Ughi per Roma." In tandem with Bruno Tosi, Uto Ughi instituted the musical prize "Una vita per la Musica" ("A life for Music"). On September 4, 1997 he was commissioned ''Cavaliere della Gran Croce'' by the Italian President and in 2002 he received a degree honoris causa in Communication studies. He has won various awards, the most prestigious "Una vita per la musica - Leonard Bernstein" (23/6/1997), "Galileo 2000" prize (5/7/2003) and the international prize "Ostia Mare" (8/8/2003). Ughi has possessed the following fine instruments: the ''Van Houten-Kreutzer'' (1701) and ''Sinsheimer-General Kyd-Perlman'' (1714) by Antonio Stradivari; and the ''Kortschak-Wurlitzer'' (1739), ''Ole Bull'' (1744) and ''Cariplo-Hennel-Rosé'' (1744) by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. He received the ''America Award'' of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2015. ==External links== *(Uto Ughi official website ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uto Ughi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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